The Tsáchilas Touch

Here, a tribal member the Tsáchilas community is applying the achiote paste to dye my hair...a sign of their welcoming me and my Omnibus into their tribe for the day, but also a way for us to enter their world and not just observe, but FEEL, what it's like to be one of them, if only so long as the dye lasts. It was unforgettable, and unreal, to be able to experience something so wonderfully new and intriguing...to be able to realize, at last, I was a part of a brand new world, and I was no longer afraid of it.